Brown Vs. Board of Education By: Damon Mckie

How it began!!!! African American parents began to challenge racial segregation in public education as early as 1849 in the case of Roberts v. City of Boston, Massachusetts. Kansas was the site of eleven such cases spanning from 1881 to 1949

What happened next The Brown case was initiated and organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leadership who recruited African American parents in Topeka for a class action suit against the local school board. Although school buses were provided for African American children, they were only allowed to attend designated public schools base on race.

Lets take this to court In 1952, Brown v. Board was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court as a combination of five cases from various parts of the country, representing nearly 200 hundred plaintiffs. The Kansas case was named after Oliver Brown as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster.

Which Brown is Brown? There actually were two plaintiffs with the surname of Brown: Darlene Brown and Oliver Brown. Darlene Brown and Oliver Brown. The only male plaintiff was Oliver Brown, for whom the Topeka case was named Oliver Brown was asked to join the class action suit by Charles Scott, one of three serving as legal counsel for the Topeka NAACP.

5 more cases The Supreme Court combined five cases. Under the heading of Brown v. Board of Education.

These are the 5 Belton v. Gebhart(Bulah v. Gebhart) Brown V. Board of Education Briggs v. Elliott Davis v. School Board of Prince Edward County Bolling v. Sharpe

Where those 5 cases are from. Delaware Kansas South Carolina Virginia The District of Columbia (there all in order)

Wow!!They took it this far. One piece of evidence that greatly influenced the Supreme Court decision was research performed by two educational psychologists. Kenneth and Mamie Clark. They presented children as young as three with white and brown dolls. They presented children as young as three with white and brown dolls. They found that overall the children rejected the brown dolls when asked to pick which they liked the best, wanted to play with, and thought were a nice color.

Why blacks weren’t allow in white schools African-American children in Topeka, Kansas were denied access to all-white schools due to rules allowing for separate but equal facilities The idea of separate but equal was given legal standing with the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson his doctrine required that any separate facilities had to be of equal quality. However, the plaintiffs in this case argued that segregation was inherently unequal.

Who Won??? In this particular court case, the supreme court ruled that Brown had won and desegregation was put forth in the public school system. Segregation was declared unconstitutional.